The Center of It All It is strange that the summer is heating up and winding down all of a sudden. School is upon us. Those of us who teach are looking forward to the new year with new students and subjects. I have yet to learn exactly what I will be teaching this year, …
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A Desire Worth Dying for…Liberty for All As I am writing this, I am on a ferry on my way back to England after visiting France. It is July 3rd, 2023. In France, I, along with a couple dozen of my students, experienced some of the beaches of D-Day and the US Cemetery in Normandy. …
There is a reason that America is called the Great Experiment. It was founded at a time of great political and religious turmoil. The time of the 1500s-1800s was a time of revolts, secessions, and schisms. Countries, rulers, and churches were all coming and going. I’m welcomed to being fact checked, but as far as …
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Covid-19 and the year 2020 was a hard time for most people on many different levels. Society was shut down, for good or evil. Jobs lost. Drug and alcohol use skyrocketed. People were encouraged to turn on their brothers and sisters for merely going outside. It was a dark and lonely time for most of …
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The Dispensational Storyline I heard it first credited to C.S. Lewis that “Story always win.” I’ve read in plenty of business books that stories sell. If you are one that enjoys the court room drama like me, then it is not always the one who has all of the facts that win the case, but …
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or Why Educating Everyone is a Bad Idea I remember a time that my mother asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I think I was around 7th or 8thgrade. I was a kid. I had no idea. I told her that I didn’t know, but I did know that I would not …
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A History of Pragmatic Education When I began teaching, I almost exclusively taught mathematics. I had students ranging from third grade through twelfth grade. A common question that I was asked particularly by the junior higher was, “When am I ever going to use this?” Now this is a legitimate question for a student to …
As a follow up from my previous post, there is a reality that what you believe is vital to how you live your life. What you do really does depend upon your doctrine. To push this all the way to the corners of your life, it is best to start with some definitions. Doctrine is …
A notion that I have learned from my youth is “Doing depends on Doctrine.” This is something that will never easily leave me. It has been a pillar in my mind as to why one should focus on the minute details of theology. What we believe does work itself out through our actions. Doctrine is …
Today is the day that the United States, and other countries around, collectively spend the day giving thanks for what they have. Traditionally, this time of thanksgiving was the norm around harvest times in cultures that were religious. There is something magically about the growing and gathering of crops that less civilized men knew and …